the beginning and development of cooperation between geography at liverpool and in china david...
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The beginning and development of cooperation between
Geography at Liverpool and in China
David Sadler, University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool: the original red-brick “civic” university
European Capital of Culture 2008
Percy Maude Roxby
• Born 1880; educated in History at Oxford; appointed Lecturer in Regional Geography at Liverpool in 1906; became “lecturer in charge” of new Department of Geography in 1909; appointed John Rankin Professor of Geography in 1917
• Visited China as Albert Kahn Fellow in 1912-13 and in 1921-22 as member of the China Education Commission (3rd visit in 1931)
Roxby…
• Handbooks on China: I Physical geography, history and peoples, II Modern history and administration, III Economic geography, ports and communications (1944-45)
• British Council’s Chief Representative in China, 1944-47; died in Nanking in 1947
Professors Percy Maude Roxby, Lin Chao, and Hou Renzhi
Higher degrees at Liverpool
• Wilfred Smith “The iron and steel industry of China” MA, 1926
• Chang Yin Tang “The economic development and prospects of inner Mongolia” MA, 1929
• Lin Chao “The Nanking-wu-yi Shan: a geographic divide” PhD, 1938
• Wu Chuanjun “The rice economy of China” PhD, 1948
• Hou Renzhi “An historical geography of Peiping”, PhD, 1949
Lin Chao, 1909-91
• Born in Jieyang County, Guangdong Province; educated at Zhongshan University
• Studied the application of physical geography to China’s environmental conservation and rural development
• Rose to become Head of Geography at Peking University
Wu Chuanjun, 1918-2009
• Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, educated at Zhongyang University
• Studied the utilisation of land resources and agricultural development
• Selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991
Hou Renzhi
• Born in Zaoqiang, Hebei Province, educated at Yanjing University
• Studied historical geography, the origin and development of water resources, and the municipal plan for Beijing
• Selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980
• Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science by Liverpool in 1984
… and more recently…
• Lizhong Yu “Environmental applications of mineral magnetic measurement” PhD, 1989
• Yuquan Hu “A magnetic approach to sediment-source linkages in the Lac d’Annecy” PhD, 1997
• Xie Shanju “Magnetic studies of dust in the urban environment” PhD, 2000
• Xia Dunsheng “Magnetic studies of tephra in SE Iceland” PhD, 2003
• Qingnian Yu “Cultivated land protection in China” PhD, 2006• Zhixiong Shen “Improving the chronologies of lake sediments:
Crummock Water” PhD, 2007
The Tribute of Gü
The original text of Gunkungor
“The Tribute of Gü”Dedicated to the ‘China Room’
Department of Geography,University of Liverpool
Presented byChong Gün t’ang & Lin Chao
Written byProfessor Ku Chi-Kay
(The tenth month of the 25th yearof the Chinese Republic)
This scroll hangs on the wallin the Geography Departmentwith the following inscription:
Prof Frank Oldfield and Prof Yu Lizhong in Shanghai
Sediment sampling, Yangtze Estuary
Luochan Loess Section
Transnational family strategies and education
Central Institute of Rural Development, Haikou
… and in the future…
• Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, established 2006
• Liverpool Confucius Institute established 2009, formally opened by Madam Lin Wenyi, Vice Chair of 11th Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, and Professor Wang Jianhua, XJTLU Board Director
• Shanghai Expo 2010: Liverpool the sole UK representative city